April 02, 2008

April 1: We Get Listener Comments

"Is something wrong?""I thought Bryce was filling in (for Joe Belock) or something.""When did the High School Sweethearts learn to sing in Finnish?""Is this a parody of the recent WNYE-KEXP arrangement?""Try something challenging for a change asshats!""If challenging means jazz, then, no,""Really, really lame joke. Jeez, what what was the point? To annoy the listeners? Why not just have pizzas delivered to everyone who pledged to the station?" "The playlist is totally out of sequence today. Anyone else experiencing this?""Is it OK to leave notes here if I can only hear KVJC? I am confuzzed.""The real KFJC show that's on right now sounds like a show for pill heads.""Where is Eat Skull? KFJC would have played them by now."

Much love to our freeform brothers and sisters at KFJC in Los Altos Hills for our April 1st web/air switcheroo. Hope you enjoyed it, or on the other hand, forgive us both. Sometimes we just can't help ourselves.

Wait, whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? No Best Show archive? Instead I get some boring unlistenable drone for music with some DJ with a boring unlistenable drone for a voice.
I cant listen live to it live because I'm always asleep at that time and now I've missed it because of an April fool joke, that technically (in europe anyway) took place on April 2nd!

Wait, whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? No Best Show archive? Instead I get some boring unlistenable drone for music with some DJ with a boring unlistenable drone for a voice.
I cant listen live to it live because I'm always asleep at that time and now I've missed it because of an April fool joke, that technically (in europe anyway) took place on April 2nd!

Wow. I totaly fell for that. I drove around for an extra 30 minutes trying to figure it out. Then battled with my home radio to get decent reception. After that attempted failed, I gave up and went to sleep wondering where my WFMU was, all the while muttering "But the marathon was a success"

jeebus, I can't believe there are so many positive comments on here. Some of us get home from a hard day at work (in front of a computer) and just want to sit in our room and drink a cold beer and listen to WFMU (on the radio).

You thwarted that. Someone somewhere said that this "prank" was like a 24-hour long bad episode of 7SD. 100% true. You know, some people still like/have to listen to this station on the radio. That was the fatal flaw.

I see. And you speak for the whole audience and declare them pissed off.

Perhaps some people give to WFMU's marathon because they support a radio station so adventurous that they want to celebrate the freedom of sound, including the sound of confusion at times. WFMU and KFJC did not do this prank maliciously, I assure you.

All due deference to the folks who dug what FJC was doing, and even more so to its own listeners, who no doubt love it as much as we love our home team. But for me at least, the day was like dropping acid with Timothy Leary's bunch of navel-gazers when you're used to doing it Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters.

I'm really stunned that people in both station's audiences actually got mad! STUNNED! What's the problem? Either you think it's funny or you shrug it off, I figured. Pissed off right after the marathon? That's the equivalent of saying "I just pledged and you won't play my request and I'm pissed!" Jeeeez. I like how alleged "open minds" suddenly close up at their convenience. So you want to drink a beer listening to Scharpling - what if he was on vacation and the fill-in DJ played the same exact stuff you heard on KFJC? would you be pissed? WTF!

That surprises me, at least a bit, since I assumed this was an Internet only prank.

I was fooled, no question - but in part, because of the assumption that no broadcast station would play around with its broadcast signal that way, which led me to assume it was an Internet only 'problem.'

Neither a success nor failure - but certainly in keeping with what makes freeform worth listening to, including the excruciating parts.

I guess it worked for other people, but I went to KFJC's page after I figured out was going on, and none of the links would click through. Seems like I was the only one with that problem.
Had a rough day, just sittin in my bedroom, drainin a cold beer, no Best Show. You guys should start shoppin for a coffin.

It took me awhile to see the humor in it.. but I think that's because I was so traumatized when 'JACK' took over CBS FM!! CBS is sorta back ( a moral victory at least) but I guess I'm still not completely over it....!

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